MAJOR AIM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1941, Page 5

MAJOR AIM

RETRIBUTION FOR NAZI CRIME DECLARATION BY ROOSEVELT & CHURCHILL. SURPASSING ATROCITIES. (British Official Wireless.) * RUGBY, October 25. Strong condemnation of the brutal German methods in occupied countries was voiced in a speech today by President Roosevelt. Those who talked of negotiating with Hitler would do well to take note of these events, he said. In a statement tonight the Prime Minister, Mr Churchill, said that the British Government fully associated itself with the sentimenis of horror and condemnation expressed by Mr Roosevelt concerning the Nazi butcheries in France. Mr Churchill said retribution for these crimes must henceforward be one of tne major purposes of the war. The Nazi atrocities in France and elsewhere, above all behind the German fronts in Russia, surpassed anything since the darkest and most bestial ages of mankind. They were but a foretaste of what Hitler would inflict on the British and American peoples if he could get the power. SERBS MASSACRED REPRISAL FOR KILLING OF GERMANS. LONDON, October 25. An official announcement in Belgrade stated that 200 Serbian hostages were executed following the killing of German soldiers on October 18. The Budapest correspondent of the British United Press reports that firing squads executed eight people, including three women, at a town near Belgrade for possession of arms. Eight men and seven women were executed at Zagreb for sabotage and also distributing Communist literature. “The Times” Istanbul correspondent says the Bulgarian Government is expelling practically the entire Greek population from Thrace. Greek properties are being confiscated and distributed among the Bulgarian settlers who are replacing them. Berlin announced that six more Czechs have been executed at Brno, Moravia, for high treason.